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Born in Seattle to a middle-class family, his father was an attorney and his mother was a school teacher (Wanke and kreit) . -
Here he met his childhood friend whom he later on created Microsoft with, they had issues in midlife but reconciled near Allen's death (Wanke and kreit) . -
His school saw his talent for computers and gave him the chance to create a computerized schedule for the classes. Lakeside at the time was one of the only primary schools with a computer (Wanke and kreit). -
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Worked with Allen along side the company MITS to create the BASIC, Gates viewed MITS as his first real step in the industry (Wanke and kreit). -
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Registers the trade mark "Microsoft' for his company with Allen who acts as cofounder.
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A choice made to further focus on his company with Allen in the image above (Wanke and kreit) -
Gates located his first office near MITS office to be involved in the Altair project and MITS. (Bill gates) -
Image shows Microsoft logo change of that year ((Wanke and kreit) -
Microsoft releases Windows 1.0 (Bill Gates) -
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MS-DOS is licensed to IBM for the company first personal computer (Bill Gates) -
Gates met his wife at a Microsoft event in Newyork (Wanke and Kreit). -
Corbis is an archive of visual information such as art and other forms of media, currently one of the largest visual media collections (Wanke and Kreit). -
Awarded the golden plate in the category of business (“William H. Gates III”) -
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His book became a best seller (“William H. Gates III”). -
Charity foundation that is currently running, Gates spends most of his retirement focusing on his work for the foundation (Bill Gates). -
Gates steps down from being Microsoft CEO to take on the role of Chief Software Architect, the following image shows the next CEO Steve Ballmer (Bill Gates). -
The image shows a magazine advertising the Xbox in 2001 (Bill Gates) -
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Gates stepped down from the role of Microsoft chairman to take on a more relaxed role of Tech advisor (Bill Gates) -
President Barack Obama awarded Gates the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Microsoft for donating over $28 billion to charity (“William H. Gates III”). -
He cut full ties from his chair on the board (shown in image) and has completely stepped down from chairman board relations (Bill Gates) -
Gates and his ex-wife divorced after 27 years of marriage though they still work together on their charity project (“William H. Gates III”). -
(“William H. Gates III”)